This guy is a hero if he resists. Reminds me of the ideology retraining the Canadian government and psychology association wants to force on Jordan Peterson.
Very similar setup there. I would tell them to "Go Pound Sand", (to be polite) you are doing what the Science needs to be and the Expertise the Students Need to attain, if you go all "Woke" on that, it will mean you will have a Year full of UNDER-ACHIEVING Students that will never get a Job because they were never TAUGHT How to Think for themselves and Be analytical. The State wants to make all students DUMBER.
There is a court case going forward in Seattle for an employee who did something similar. They had groups based on race for training and he insisted they allow him in the one for black people. They retaliate, tell him he should quit so a black person can have his job, he gets fired eventually, and the judge said it can go forward recently. Could be a future problem for the diversity industrial complex.
I was a professor of computer science in Mississippi. Our population is almost 40% African American. My Classes were quite popular with this demographic. Why? I supported students. I liked the students, and I would help students if I could. I also worked very hard to communicate technical ideas as clearly as I could. I did not need to shift to a new social ideology; I needed to help each student to achieve their best.
That is no longer what many districts want out of their teaching staff. Job 1 is to tow the party line, job 2 is to teach the subject. We're shaping hearts and minds here people, get with the program or get out of our way - my interpretation of the mindset of a captured education system.
To whomever asked, no they did not fire me. I retired as a distinguished full professor. Also I'm female which is a very marginalized demographic in computing.
I confess, I used to be woke. I was constantly getting triggered. I protested everything that offended me, and demanded it all be cancelled. Finally I grew out of it, and went to preschool.
Professors need to push back. I am a PhD student and am teaching my first class this semester. Since I am just starting out I don't have much power but I want to find ways to push back. In my syllabus I put that there is free speech. I told the students that they can voice their opinion just be respectful of others. Putting the clause about free speech in my syllabus was my way of pushing back a little bit.
I love the combination of "collective" thinking with acknowledging "authentic lives," yet people's lives are based on individual experiences. Is it any wonder young people are confused?
You misread it exactly how the activists intended you to misread it. It says authentic lived experience. Within the collectivist framework, the lived experience can only be authentic from the perspective of the oppressed class.
The interdependence between people is what makes the quality of a life. Every orphan is gonna have a worse time than a famlied child. Then take into account the resources of that family. Those may be individual lives but only focusing on them in a void is entirely thoughtless.
Furthermore, he totally failed to explain how his pedagogy will grapple with the fact that Einstein's Theory of General Relativity is a sexed equation because privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary for us.
Everyone made to go into these bias trainings should not resist. They should go “SURE LETS DO IT”, and then secretly film it and release it to the whole world. I may be totally wrong; but this method might be more effective than mere resisting.
Nope. Think about the pronoun thing--people thought, "Let's be nice" and they at least pretended like they were going to comply. Then you turn around and kids are being mutilated (age 14+) and sterilized (age 10+). Not just that, but especially autistic kids and those with other mental and behavioral vulnerabilities. Houston ISD is moving to eliminate 28 school libraries and turn them into discipline centers. Who goes to discipline centers the most? Use your imagination. This has gone very bad, very quickly with feigned cooperation. It's the same type of thing that happened in Nazi Germany--but they didn't have social media to expose it. We do, and that gives us an even greater responsibility to say NO.
@@5Gburn This was even more prevalent in the communist countries of the Eastern Europe and Soviet Union, which lasted much longer for many decades. People had to comply with constant ideological reeducation and intimidation, basically in all professions requiring any higher education not only teachers. I have never dreamed it could ever come to NA. And it is already here.
You have a point. Resisting marks the enemies of the Marxist perpetrators of this fascistic nonsense. It may be valuable for the resisters to appear to go along, then undermine this sick ideology from the "inside".
@@5Gburn The castration of male genitals in Weimar Republic Germany was one of the many reasons square mustache man was ELECTED into power. Other than that, you are 100% spot on. Children being brainwashed into sterilizing and mutilating their bodies will lead to other Western Countries into electing their own square mustache men.
It won't accomplish anything. The vast majority of the people who don't like it won't be motivated to do any large, unified work to change it. The other group of people will support it because they are true believers.
@@GnuReligionOnce the government decides a training is good it just gets dropped on everyone, sometimes from the janitor all the way up the head of the agency.
Well said. . .Good to see someone who knows what the hell he is doing and not compromising with the nonsense! I have a good friend and well respected instructor of biology, botany, and Microbiology, who elected to quit rather than to capitulate to this nonsense.
I'm from Argentina and an engineer. By chance I came across this. Mixing social issues with teaching chemistry? May I respectfully ask you: Has America gone completely mad?
Let's be real, if you suck as a student you're not going to excel in STEM careers. Not the end of the world, find your niche. I am not a DEI fan at all.
I don’t understand you people. What is not to like about diversity equity and inclusion, its not a euphemism for anything else, but it does seem that “I’m not a fan of DEI” is a euphemism for I wont defend marginalized peoples.
I guess if they absolutely forced you to address this stuff in your classroom, you could use it against them. You could talk about how DEI is actually racist and what you’re doing to combat that racism is to get your students to think for themselves. You could explain how DEI has nothing to do with chemistry and how collectivism is bad and then get your students’ input. There. You did it. You addressed it.
No, I think chemistry teachers should, and should be able to teach chemistry, not use their class as a platform to roast quacks who want to subvert science for woke politics, that really means you join them in politicizing science.
@@johnteets2921But the OP was saying this is what you should do if they FORCE you to teach this stuff. If they don’t force you then obviously you just teach Chemistry as is. I assume if they force you to do it and you don’t they will fire you. And they will also fire you if you do as the OP suggests. But at least in that scenario the students get to know the truth BEFORE you’re fired, and some might rebel.
Well as Mr. Khendi said, “the way to correct racism in the past is to practice racism in the present”. This is just another way of saying that he wants revenge. What ever happened to the old saying “two wrongs don’t make a right”? Keep up the fight against this institutionalized anti-white racism!
I gave a thumbs up just on seeing the title. I work in the medical field and the incursion of toxic "woke" insanity into every aspect of current practice is horrific.
@@dalethomasdewitt if it's irrelevant to his class then he doesn't need to worry about complying with anything, and he's the issue by taking this to national tv politicizing his classroom all on his own
Unfortunately, those with differing viewpoints (on nearly everything) are not a protected class. Protected classes mostly involve "immutable characteristics", plus religions (well, most of them).
All you need to teach your students is how to do the chemistry/calculations so they dont kill their patients later in life. NOTHING to do with who, what, them, it, she or he has anything to do with that. It is not subjective it is factual. Or at least it was when i took Chem1 and Chem2.
Ironically, knowing the *actual* sex and ethnicity of your patients can actually be pretty important for proper dosages. But those sorts of complicating factors would NOT be included in a high-school level course.
What you're failing to grasp is that in this new model things such as science, facts, and evidence are considered just one way of knowing things. Further they are the tools of the prejudiced and oppressive system that we live under as they discount the other paths to knowing that come from the lived shared experiences of oppressed and silenced minorities. In their world view for example the knowledge of the shaman in treating a health issue such as say a neurological disorder is just as valid as that of an M.D. trained in western medicine.
What you're failing to grasp is that in this new model things such as science, facts, and evidence are considered just one way of knowing things. Further they are the tools of the prejudiced and oppressive system that we live under as they discount the other paths to knowing that come from the lived shared experiences of oppressed and silenced minorities. In their world view for example the knowledge of the shaman in treating a health issue such as say a neurological disorder is just as valid as that of an M.D. trained in western medicine.
It's scary to think what's happening to kids in school. In the 90s we had various educational figures from different races and economic backgrounds give inspirational speeches once in a while and it was very cool learning that everyone ALREADY HAS an equal opportunity. Effort is what counts
How many hours they expect to teach the real class instead of all this woke s***? This guy has his head on straight that they needs to teach the stuff they need, not race theory and collectivism . Cheers for him, need more people like him.
I teach at a community college in NY State. Fortunately, NY is so incompetent with anything having to do with education that I doubt they'll implement this kind of thing soon. But it is inevitable. I have ten years to go until retirement, and I hope I make it out before it's intolerable.
Your governor had to ban DEI programs since they were already present in Texas. And apparently Austin has its own city colleges with DEI departments. Community college professors in Texas don't seem to be safe from this at all. If you have to ban it the roots are already in and the people who put it there are still employed. You will become California eventually, but so will my state.
@@CIARUNSITE It's frighteningly purple. They have a guy here named Beto who challenges Kamala for twitness, yet a scary percentage of people vote for him because they believe lavish free lunch promises from Democrats.
Just note if you have to go through a struggle session, James Lindsay has some good takes on how to get through it, or sometimes even screw them up while doing so.
They usually set them up in a way where the opinion of anyone who might dissent is preemptively dismissed due to their membership in a disfavored racial group. It's much easier to achieve harmony when you don't allow the other side to have an opinion.
@@CIARUNSITE You can still troll them and waste their time and resources, or just get kicked out prematurely. You can also go along with things and document them careful then expose them later on. I think Lindsay had a few more. Them "kicking you out" is likely the best thing you can have happening to you.
We need to start at our local level and get these people OUT! Vivek wants to abolish School Boards…let’s help him do it!! Start there and then boycott the colleges…starve them as they need students to make the overinflated prices of tuition to keep the doors open. The saddest part is that we are PAYING to send our CHILDREN TO THE WOLVES IN SHEEPS CLOTHING!
I wish all college teachers were like him. I wouldn't be so afraid to send my daughter to a state school. I hope she picks a private school. I'll get a second job if I have to. I can't let her become an Elitist self important piece of human flotsam.
My dad's a retired 42 year chemistry teacher. H.s. and college C101. He'd never do this. He left IUPUI over garbage. Forcing teachers to follow curriculum. Books written by the director. He was invited to teach his way at IUPUC. No agenda. In the 90's
I am an autistic heterosexual white male. For people like me, academia is a horrible racist and sexist paradigm. Academics see an individual as being deserving of social demotion, based on being a white male. And even though autistics have a long history of being marginalized, stigmatized, and under-served, academia casts our challenges as negligible. The academic position is, "there is always some old white male who believe he's had challenges in his life." When I go out, I always have the prospect of encountering someone who feels the right to "lean into their identity" by non-verbally leaning into me, just like every other white male. However, my autism prevents me from detecting their non-verbal bully force and all of a sudden I have "confirmed" that I am deep-seated something-or-other. Academia has knowingly created a hostile and toxic social environment for everyone who has an academically assigned villainy, coupled with an academically exploitable disability. Academia has re-engineered society, so we go from workable marginalization to outright social expulsion. At 68 years-old, I've seen and felt the change. I had a much better chance when I entered kindergarten in 1960, than a little 5 year-old autistic white male has today. Our only option is become the most litigious in the history of the world. Every student who wears academically imposed social stains needs a lawyer and a litigation plan before setting foot on any campus. A lot of academics deserve to end up flat-busted broke, living in a dumpster, and eating whatever garbage is thrown into their home.
Great answer. It is awful what goes on in the schools. In my undergraduate every class I had was indoctrination. I complained to the Dean's office about it because I felt the teachers were inserting radical beliefs into the course. They retaliated a little bit to the point where I had to have my work signed off by the student services office. I went to Cornell and I guess I was naïve because I didn't know how liberal the school was. I think most universities are like this now and it's intimidating and I think they want to create little socialists. My Catholicism was what guided me. I felt bad for a lot of the teachers and once I saw a teacher crying after being reprimanded. I chose this school because of its scientific program but I should have gone to Dartmouth, maybe Holy Cross.
It's sad that the people who are making more sense today are the brainwashed religious ones. These are horrible times. People are either woke fanatics or religious fanatics, there's nothing in between.
Any contributions accomplished by whte men and women to the sciences will be rewritten and given to anyone else that fits their agenda, even if they weren't involved in those fields. I suspect Sam Britton will be credited for all three of Newton's Laws.
This garbage goes on to a lesser extent even in the military. I was never so glad that my body gave out and i was able to get partial retirement three years before traditional retirement. Better to take part and leave with some dignity. If most people don't have the guts to speak up or walk away and cripple the institution you will end up held by the huevos due to dependence on your lievlihood and forced to nod along with the sheep and feel like you betrayed your conscience.
If every god fearing American responded the way of this chemistry professor, we would have a lot fewer issues in this country. (Obvious statement of the day)
This guy gets it. My niece has special needs and if her dosage gets messed up she dies. Science is just the facts. Just teach that. You need to know where you messed up. In the real world it matters.
The fact that Jordan Peterson has to go to reeducation for having opinions that we all had until yesterday and 99% of people still have is the scariest thing, it's like North Korea's Communist education camps. I would love to be a fly on the wall though I mean can you imagine some woke idiot thinking they can educate Jordan Peterson ah. I hope this guy gets support I have a little bit of I science background and there's no racism there at all.
This probably doesn't affect his classroom, he's just trying to be politically relevant and internet famous, and is also likely being used by this news station for views. It might cost him his job. You can dispute policy with your administrators respectfully but when you go on a right wing media show you are being disrespectful and deliberately making yourself a nuisance and politicizing yourself and perhaps should be targeted for review. Just a thought. I hope you have a backup career basically, because you're being very reckless and stupid. You're giving a middle finger to your employers, which doesn't go over well in the best of circumstances. I hope you know what you're doing. Did you even mention this to your employer that you have qualms about the wording of one sentence in your charter or whatever before you went on a news show and said you think your school is full of monsters or whatever you think you're doing?
@@noblelies if reason is picking one sentence out like this as indication of some conspiracy in the administration, maybe they are just dumb and sensationalized dumbness
@@cypressbutane4575 i take it you haven't been in a science class in more than ten years. I'm not trying to be mean, but there is a huge problem with ideology creeping into objective science. They force it even where it doesn't make sense. And these aren't rightwing teachers who are freaking out about this: they're asking them to rewrite math textbooks to focus on the presumptive racist history of word problems, I've seen it with my own eyeballs. I've had class time taken from basic math principals to 'discuss' the history behind how word problems are written. It doesnt matter. Cultural perspective isn't useful in learning basic math concepts. I don't need to learn about the aramaic approach to numbers. I need you to help me memorize the quadratic formula and when to apply it. I don't need to hear about how it was designed during a time when there were lynchings. i need to make sure i can use the knowledge, let me learn the history and the perspective AFTER i have mastered the concepts.
A friends son in WA state had to elaborate on the Underground Railroad in Algebra class. The kid refused to complete that part of the final test. The teacher gave him a zero on the who test.
"...and there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self-deception." -Arthur Koestler (1905-1983), from Darkness at Noon (1940)
Great point he made at 3:10-ish... how do you even impose a "woke" agenda in the "hard sciences." I myself have a chem degree... I can see how you impose woke ideology into sociology, economics, political science, communication, etc... but once you get to chemistry, physics, math, etc... how do you communicate woke ideology (yet alone, that is, if you even align with wokeism)?
Not teach chemistry. The people pushing D.I.E. have no interest or inteligence to understand the sciences or engineering, and don't care if they undo centuries of learning because they want us all worrying about who our words offend.
It is all about weeding out those that do not subscribe to their ideology. They cannot have free thinkers in it. The left is intentionally dismantling our country to make way for a globalist dictatorship.
Yeah but if your doing this for people to go into areas of law, hr in companies. Social work and government workers than you see it displayed. From top down. People with ethical standards, lacking integrity to uphold their duties of that position. Just to get the bag society and to hell everyone else. Holy shit, they lower the bar for criminals to run rampant. And so on and so forth. It can't be incompetence, they refuse to acknowledge not upholding their path of office or positions.
For subjects where rules and principles are bread & butter... wth is a "cultural norm"? The table of elements is at some point going to be declared... racist? The loons already did this to math. People on mushrooms have more sense than this. Clown world is neither fun nor funny: real people are being damaged by insane theories, and at taxpayer expense.
I would like for someone to stand up at one of these struggle sessions and ask what they are hoping to achieve? Wasting time? You can't make someone change their manner of thought and even if you do, and they still want to harass you, they just dig through your old Tweets, say, and show that you are still not anti-racist or whatever, so it won't really matter.
I’m a student trying to go the nursing route I decided to do this right before a quarter started and ending up having to enroll in my two psych pre reqs One of my psych classes is literally just half woke jargon. And attendance is like 35% of my grade… I have other classes and am trying to get fit. Listening to a feminist for an hour and a half a day actually gets in the way of my learning.
Pro racial unity pro ethnic equality pro linguistic diversity pro artistic diverstity, individualistic centrist Christian Republican. I Respect idrological governance.
‘Authentic lived experience’ is one of the finest examples of doublespeak in modern discourse. While it seems as though it ought to refer to individual people’s own experiences as they interpret them, it actually assumes in advance that a narrow set of experiences are ‘true’ and that any member of a supposed minority group who believes themselves to have experienced something different has been manipulated in some way. As a black student of mine once said to me: they say they’ve given us a voice but all we’ve been given is a script.
1:59 - yeah, I used to do the same and got in a lot of conflicts for not favouring people from "disadvantaged backgrounds" (ie: right demographics - they were almost all richer than me when I started), until I was fired on a pretence; well, luckily teaching was just some side-activity I did for fun.
Completely unpredictable. Sexist. Next you're going to suggest that the less attractive female became expert in using narrative to manipulate social situations and became an HR parasite.
Time for the people who fund these universities to clean house. Let them start with the boards of governors and work their way down from there. The last thing the world needs is more Evergreen Universities.
@@droogie76 If one is taught how to research properly, they will have no issues with learning. Besides: I wouldn't trust this Educational System to teach anyone anything!
This guy is a hero if he resists. Reminds me of the ideology retraining the Canadian government and psychology association wants to force on Jordan Peterson.
Very similar setup there. I would tell them to "Go Pound Sand", (to be polite) you are doing what the Science needs to be and the Expertise the Students Need to attain, if you go all "Woke" on that, it will mean you will have a Year full of UNDER-ACHIEVING Students that will never get a Job because they were never TAUGHT How to Think for themselves and Be analytical. The State wants to make all students DUMBER.
@@scottcarr3264The government wants to dumb people down, there by making them easier to control.
There is a court case going forward in Seattle for an employee who did something similar. They had groups based on race for training and he insisted they allow him in the one for black people. They retaliate, tell him he should quit so a black person can have his job, he gets fired eventually, and the judge said it can go forward recently. Could be a future problem for the diversity industrial complex.
He, like me, is not a hero for resisting. We are just doing what makes perfect sense, what feels like our responsibility as grown ups.
Fear is their only weapon. Solzhenitsyn said, if you’re not afraid to die, they can’t hurt you. So you have to get your life right and man up.
I was a professor of computer science in Mississippi. Our population is almost 40% African American. My Classes were quite popular with this demographic. Why? I supported students. I liked the students, and I would help students if I could. I also worked very hard to communicate technical ideas as clearly as I could. I did not need to shift to a new social ideology; I needed to help each student to achieve their best.
That is no longer what many districts want out of their teaching staff. Job 1 is to tow the party line, job 2 is to teach the subject. We're shaping hearts and minds here people, get with the program or get out of our way - my interpretation of the mindset of a captured education system.
To whomever asked, no they did not fire me. I retired as a distinguished full professor. Also I'm female which is a very marginalized demographic in computing.
@@davidr9876anti MAGA is best
Great respect for this man's position. I think critical thinking is required.
Why is it critical thinking to just do whatever you feel like doing instead of putting in the work you were asked to do for your job?
Critical thinking has been replaced with critical race theory. We are so doomed.
@TheRealNickG >"putting in the work you were asked to do for your job"
You'd do great in 1930s Germany or USSR "doing the work you were asked to do"
@@TheRealNickG Are you really this stupid or are you just a troll?
I confess, I used to be woke. I was constantly getting triggered. I protested everything that offended me, and demanded it all be cancelled. Finally I grew out of it, and went to preschool.
that's exactly what progressives are: bunch of spoiled kids
Ohh? Infantilize people who care?
Love your comments. 😅
Hallelujah & thank you. They DO suffer from fetal asshole syndrome.
You grew out of the woke nonsense a lot sooner than I. 😂
Now here is a teacher with a backbone. Not many around these days.
Professors need to push back. I am a PhD student and am teaching my first class this semester. Since I am just starting out I don't have much power but I want to find ways to push back. In my syllabus I put that there is free speech. I told the students that they can voice their opinion just be respectful of others. Putting the clause about free speech in my syllabus was my way of pushing back a little bit.
Join the Heterodox Academy and get some ideas from folks there.
@@arnoldcantu9583 I never heard of it so I just Googled it. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@arnoldcantu9583I’m a teacher. How do I join?
Well done❤ I love this
Fight the good fight! Try to stay in the field! One person affects thousands of others!!!!!! Godspeed!
Now this man is a real teacher. Who doesn’t want their children to experience such a level headed instruction?
Respect to the man who fights the machine. We have to fight.
Welcome . . to the machine 🎸
I love the combination of "collective" thinking with acknowledging "authentic lives," yet people's lives are based on individual experiences. Is it any wonder young people are confused?
I'm a lawyer and an English major. I have no idea what that means.
You misread it exactly how the activists intended you to misread it. It says authentic lived experience. Within the collectivist framework, the lived experience can only be authentic from the perspective of the oppressed class.
@@lizzy-wx4rx I have a PhD in Philosophy and taught logic at a Russell Group university. It seems straightforwardly contradictory to me.
The interdependence between people is what makes the quality of a life. Every orphan is gonna have a worse time than a famlied child. Then take into account the resources of that family. Those may be individual lives but only focusing on them in a void is entirely thoughtless.
I was under the impression that MY experience WAS/IS lived…I SO hate that term,it’s bullshit.
The professor never answered the important question. Exactly what is the anti-racist molecular weight of boron?
Furthermore, he totally failed to explain how his pedagogy will grapple with the fact that Einstein's Theory of General Relativity is a sexed equation because privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary for us.
Weight? Do I detect fatphobia here?
@@JonJaeden😂
The people tasked with corrupting education couldn't find Boron on a periodic table, nevermind in a box with a mule team on it.
it's undefined
Everyone made to go into these bias trainings should not resist. They should go “SURE LETS DO IT”, and then secretly film it and release it to the whole world. I may be totally wrong; but this method might be more effective than mere resisting.
Nope. Think about the pronoun thing--people thought, "Let's be nice" and they at least pretended like they were going to comply. Then you turn around and kids are being mutilated (age 14+) and sterilized (age 10+). Not just that, but especially autistic kids and those with other mental and behavioral vulnerabilities.
Houston ISD is moving to eliminate 28 school libraries and turn them into discipline centers. Who goes to discipline centers the most?
Use your imagination. This has gone very bad, very quickly with feigned cooperation. It's the same type of thing that happened in Nazi Germany--but they didn't have social media to expose it. We do, and that gives us an even greater responsibility to say NO.
@@5Gburn This was even more prevalent in the communist countries of the Eastern Europe and Soviet Union, which lasted much longer for many decades. People had to comply with constant ideological reeducation and intimidation, basically in all professions requiring any higher education not only teachers. I have never dreamed it could ever come to NA. And it is already here.
You have a point. Resisting marks the enemies of the Marxist perpetrators of this fascistic nonsense. It may be valuable for the resisters to appear to go along, then undermine this sick ideology from the "inside".
@@5Gburn The castration of male genitals in Weimar Republic Germany was one of the many reasons square mustache man was ELECTED into power. Other than that, you are 100% spot on. Children being brainwashed into sterilizing and mutilating their bodies will lead to other Western Countries into electing their own square mustache men.
It won't accomplish anything. The vast majority of the people who don't like it won't be motivated to do any large, unified work to change it. The other group of people will support it because they are true believers.
I worked for the government in IT and quit because of all this stuff. I WILL NEVER comply
And the IT is better without you. Buh-bye!
Computer nerds (like me) are seldomly flaming racists. What did they want you to do, take DEI training?
You should have stuck around and undermined it as much as possible...push as far to the line as possible while maintaining plausible deniability.
Can you give an example
@@GnuReligionOnce the government decides a training is good it just gets dropped on everyone, sometimes from the janitor all the way up the head of the agency.
Well said. . .Good to see someone who knows what the hell he is doing and not compromising with the nonsense! I have a good friend and well respected instructor of biology, botany, and Microbiology, who elected to quit rather than to capitulate to this nonsense.
I'm from Argentina and an engineer. By chance I came across this. Mixing social issues with teaching chemistry? May I respectfully ask you: Has America gone completely mad?
The globalist elites, yes. Sensible people are pushing back at this madness. It remains to see how this will all play out.
Coo coo for cocoa puffs
Led by the potato in office.
Yes....yes they have.
And the rest of us are horrified, or laughing hysterically.
Hold my banana
Let's be real, if you suck as a student you're not going to excel in STEM careers. Not the end of the world, find your niche. I am not a DEI fan at all.
I don’t understand you people. What is not to like about diversity equity and inclusion, its not a euphemism for anything else, but it does seem that “I’m not a fan of DEI” is a euphemism for I wont defend marginalized peoples.
@@alexandermolberg5577we love laughing at you
That's okay they'll be happy to force this training on you from their role in the HR department.
@@alexandermolberg5577 Seems to me you do not understand people in general.
ditto.. DEI is a joke
Frightening, 1984….
LOL
I guess if they absolutely forced you to address this stuff in your classroom, you could use it against them. You could talk about how DEI is actually racist and what you’re doing to combat that racism is to get your students to think for themselves. You could explain how DEI has nothing to do with chemistry and how collectivism is bad and then get your students’ input. There. You did it. You addressed it.
No, I think chemistry teachers should, and should be able to teach chemistry, not use their class as a platform to roast quacks who want to subvert science for woke politics, that really means you join them in politicizing science.
@@johnteets2921 You’d be doing the opposite of politicizing science, but I get your point.
@@johnteets2921But the OP was saying this is what you should do if they FORCE you to teach this stuff. If they don’t force you then obviously you just teach Chemistry as is.
I assume if they force you to do it and you don’t they will fire you. And they will also fire you if you do as the OP suggests. But at least in that scenario the students get to know the truth BEFORE you’re fired, and some might rebel.
@@johnteets2921 The whole world is politicsized at the moment. Look at the governments we have today or is it tyrants even the police force.
Well as Mr. Khendi said, “the way to correct racism in the past is to practice racism in the present”. This is just another way of saying that he wants revenge. What ever happened to the old saying “two wrongs don’t make a right”? Keep up the fight against this institutionalized anti-white racism!
This just shows how a broken system perpetuates itself.
Yeah, just look at their "Broken Governor", HE thinks He's Marvelous, but I think he Is Delusional.
HR is sending Prof Blanken to California's reeducation camps.
He is there to teach chemistry not to play games with woke ideology.
Jesus bless this man
Good man.
I gave a thumbs up just on seeing the title. I work in the medical field and the incursion of toxic "woke" insanity into every aspect of current practice is horrific.
I think they’re trying to destroy society so they can have ultimate control. Andrew napolitano said “a thing will only happen if it CAN happen”
People should not comply and if there'are consequences, sue them for discrimination and lack of inclusion of people with different view points.
comply with what?
@@cypressbutane4575he's talking about complying with irrelevant bullshit, duh.
@@dalethomasdewitt That user is going to go thru the comments and say troll grade stuff. Boring
@@dalethomasdewitt if it's irrelevant to his class then he doesn't need to worry about complying with anything, and he's the issue by taking this to national tv politicizing his classroom all on his own
Unfortunately, those with differing viewpoints (on nearly everything) are not a protected class. Protected classes mostly involve "immutable characteristics", plus religions (well, most of them).
All you need to teach your students is how to do the chemistry/calculations so they dont kill their patients later in life. NOTHING to do with who, what, them, it, she or he has anything to do with that. It is not subjective it is factual. Or at least it was when i took Chem1 and Chem2.
Ironically, knowing the *actual* sex and ethnicity of your patients can actually be pretty important for proper dosages. But those sorts of complicating factors would NOT be included in a high-school level course.
@@grantjohnson5785 This is a community college course though, so maybe some of those details would be included, but maybe not.
What you're failing to grasp is that in this new model things such as science, facts, and evidence are considered just one way of knowing things. Further they are the tools of the prejudiced and oppressive system that we live under as they discount the other paths to knowing that come from the lived shared experiences of oppressed and silenced minorities. In their world view for example the knowledge of the shaman in treating a health issue such as say a neurological disorder is just as valid as that of an M.D. trained in western medicine.
What you're failing to grasp is that in this new model things such as science, facts, and evidence are considered just one way of knowing things. Further they are the tools of the prejudiced and oppressive system that we live under as they discount the other paths to knowing that come from the lived shared experiences of oppressed and silenced minorities. In their world view for example the knowledge of the shaman in treating a health issue such as say a neurological disorder is just as valid as that of an M.D. trained in western medicine.
@@megauser8512why should that be taken out for bullshit?
* in a CC*
Thank you so much for standing your ground like the Oak. We are individuals. That is what sets us apart. Driving invention.
It's scary to think what's happening to kids in school. In the 90s we had various educational figures from different races and economic backgrounds give inspirational speeches once in a while and it was very cool learning that everyone ALREADY HAS an equal opportunity. Effort is what counts
Asking "do you feel" instead of "do you think" also speaks for itself. These new guys are half way brain washed.
We all need to resist this where we can
How many hours they expect to teach the real class instead of all this woke s***? This guy has his head on straight that they needs to teach the stuff they need, not race theory and collectivism . Cheers for him, need more people like him.
I teach at a community college in NY State. Fortunately, NY is so incompetent with anything having to do with education that I doubt they'll implement this kind of thing soon. But it is inevitable. I have ten years to go until retirement, and I hope I make it out before it's intolerable.
This is exactly why I left California this summer, right before my son started high school.
I'm right behind you. Adios after 40 years.
Well, Professor, move to Texas. Better to do it on your own terms and timetable, rather than wait for them to squeeze you out and doing it anyway.
Mad Magazine fan?
@@synchronium24 Magazines are a fan of me.
Your governor had to ban DEI programs since they were already present in Texas. And apparently Austin has its own city colleges with DEI departments. Community college professors in Texas don't seem to be safe from this at all. If you have to ban it the roots are already in and the people who put it there are still employed. You will become California eventually, but so will my state.
@@CIARUNSITE It's frighteningly purple. They have a guy here named Beto who challenges Kamala for twitness, yet a scary percentage of people vote for him because they believe lavish free lunch promises from Democrats.
Anti-racism is best served by truth and logic.
Here in "merica, we got no time for truth and logic.
Praying for God's favor on your courage.
Just note if you have to go through a struggle session, James Lindsay has some good takes on how to get through it, or sometimes even screw them up while doing so.
They usually set them up in a way where the opinion of anyone who might dissent is preemptively dismissed due to their membership in a disfavored racial group. It's much easier to achieve harmony when you don't allow the other side to have an opinion.
@@CIARUNSITE You can still troll them and waste their time and resources, or just get kicked out prematurely. You can also go along with things and document them careful then expose them later on. I think Lindsay had a few more. Them "kicking you out" is likely the best thing you can have happening to you.
Love this guy ... from a former STEM major. True critical thinking not Critical Whatever Theory.
Bravo, Bill. Bravo. 👏 👏 👏
We need to start at our local level and get these people OUT! Vivek wants to abolish School Boards…let’s help him do it!! Start there and then boycott the colleges…starve them as they need students to make the overinflated prices of tuition to keep the doors open. The saddest part is that we are PAYING to send our CHILDREN TO THE WOLVES IN SHEEPS CLOTHING!
I hope we can keep hearing about this professor and his annual review. Please keep us posted on his efforts to preserve science class.
Refreshing!
Thanks Bill!!!!
Good on Bill.
I wish all college teachers were like him. I wouldn't be so afraid to send my daughter to a state school. I hope she picks a private school. I'll get a second job if I have to. I can't let her become an Elitist self important piece of human flotsam.
Say “I treat everyone equally”.
Besides if someone does poorly you don't treat them the same as someone who's passing.
100% top down.., shows who made the long march through the institutions. It will take a generation to root out this evil.
Or much more probably sadly! 😢
My dad's a retired 42 year chemistry teacher. H.s. and college C101.
He'd never do this. He left IUPUI over garbage. Forcing teachers to follow curriculum. Books written by the director.
He was invited to teach his way at IUPUC. No agenda. In the 90's
Teachers and professors need to realize tenure goes both ways. Conservative educators have much power.
If this guy fails in his resistence there is no longer a justification for wasting a cent on an "education" in a California Community College.
I am an autistic heterosexual white male. For people like me, academia is a horrible racist and sexist paradigm. Academics see an individual as being deserving of social demotion, based on being a white male. And even though autistics have a long history of being marginalized, stigmatized, and under-served, academia casts our challenges as negligible. The academic position is, "there is always some old white male who believe he's had challenges in his life." When I go out, I always have the prospect of encountering someone who feels the right to "lean into their identity" by non-verbally leaning into me, just like every other white male. However, my autism prevents me from detecting their non-verbal bully force and all of a sudden I have "confirmed" that I am deep-seated something-or-other. Academia has knowingly created a hostile and toxic social environment for everyone who has an academically assigned villainy, coupled with an academically exploitable disability. Academia has re-engineered society, so we go from workable marginalization to outright social expulsion. At 68 years-old, I've seen and felt the change. I had a much better chance when I entered kindergarten in 1960, than a little 5 year-old autistic white male has today. Our only option is become the most litigious in the history of the world. Every student who wears academically imposed social stains needs a lawyer and a litigation plan before setting foot on any campus. A lot of academics deserve to end up flat-busted broke, living in a dumpster, and eating whatever garbage is thrown into their home.
Great answer. It is awful what goes on in the schools. In my undergraduate every class I had was indoctrination. I complained to the Dean's office about it because I felt the teachers were inserting radical beliefs into the course. They retaliated a little bit to the point where I had to have my work signed off by the student services office. I went to Cornell and I guess I was naïve because I didn't know how liberal the school was. I think most universities are like this now and it's intimidating and I think they want to create little socialists. My Catholicism was what guided me. I felt bad for a lot of the teachers and once I saw a teacher crying after being reprimanded. I chose this school because of its scientific program but I should have gone to Dartmouth, maybe Holy Cross.
It's sad that the people who are making more sense today are the brainwashed religious ones. These are horrible times. People are either woke fanatics or religious fanatics, there's nothing in between.
Not no… but HELL NO on to any BS mandates!
Good for you Professor!
Any contributions accomplished by whte men and women to the sciences will be rewritten and given to anyone else that fits their agenda, even if they weren't involved in those fields. I suspect Sam Britton will be credited for all three of Newton's Laws.
This garbage goes on to a lesser extent even in the military. I was never so glad that my body gave out and i was able to get partial retirement three years before traditional retirement. Better to take part and leave with some dignity. If most people don't have the guts to speak up or walk away and cripple the institution you will end up held by the huevos due to dependence on your lievlihood and forced to nod along with the sheep and feel like you betrayed your conscience.
If every god fearing American responded the way of this chemistry professor, we would have a lot fewer issues in this country. (Obvious statement of the day)
This guy gets it. My niece has special needs and if her dosage gets messed up she dies. Science is just the facts. Just teach that. You need to know where you messed up. In the real world it matters.
Thank you, Professor Blanken!
The fact that Jordan Peterson has to go to reeducation for having opinions that we all had until yesterday and 99% of people still have is the scariest thing, it's like North Korea's Communist education camps. I would love to be a fly on the wall though I mean can you imagine some woke idiot thinking they can educate Jordan Peterson ah.
I hope this guy gets support I have a little bit of I science background and there's no racism there at all.
That standard sounds like it could only be applied to subjective matter. Chemistry is purely objective, right?
This probably doesn't affect his classroom, he's just trying to be politically relevant and internet famous, and is also likely being used by this news station for views. It might cost him his job. You can dispute policy with your administrators respectfully but when you go on a right wing media show you are being disrespectful and deliberately making yourself a nuisance and politicizing yourself and perhaps should be targeted for review. Just a thought. I hope you have a backup career basically, because you're being very reckless and stupid. You're giving a middle finger to your employers, which doesn't go over well in the best of circumstances. I hope you know what you're doing. Did you even mention this to your employer that you have qualms about the wording of one sentence in your charter or whatever before you went on a news show and said you think your school is full of monsters or whatever you think you're doing?
@@cypressbutane4575Reason is neither right-wing, not left-wing nor chicken-wing.
BTW, how long have you worked for his school?
@@noblelies if reason is picking one sentence out like this as indication of some conspiracy in the administration, maybe they are just dumb and sensationalized dumbness
@@noblelies Nah, they are merely camouflaging their agenda.
@@cypressbutane4575 i take it you haven't been in a science class in more than ten years. I'm not trying to be mean, but there is a huge problem with ideology creeping into objective science. They force it even where it doesn't make sense. And these aren't rightwing teachers who are freaking out about this: they're asking them to rewrite math textbooks to focus on the presumptive racist history of word problems, I've seen it with my own eyeballs. I've had class time taken from basic math principals to 'discuss' the history behind how word problems are written. It doesnt matter. Cultural perspective isn't useful in learning basic math concepts. I don't need to learn about the aramaic approach to numbers. I need you to help me memorize the quadratic formula and when to apply it. I don't need to hear about how it was designed during a time when there were lynchings. i need to make sure i can use the knowledge, let me learn the history and the perspective AFTER i have mastered the concepts.
Bill is a hero!
Amen we all need to speak up! And be logical!!
Good on you! Tell it like it is!
carbon good!
calcium bad!
Ofcourse
😂😅
Carbon good, as well as bad depending upon the logic? This is subject matter, not conscripted phony baloney.
I was trying to make an animal farm joke.@@dalethomasdewitt
Promote this man!!!!
When you realize McCarthy was maybe right.
He was for the most part. His methods were the problem.
He was more than correct.
The libertarian to fasicst pipeline strikes once again.
Holy shit, he was seeing where they could insert themselves. That explains the Hollywood screenwriters.
I like this professor!
A friends son in WA state had to elaborate on the Underground Railroad in Algebra class. The kid refused to complete that part of the final test. The teacher gave him a zero on the who test.
WTF does the underground railroad have to do with algebra? That's where the woke comes in I guess
"...and there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self-deception." -Arthur Koestler (1905-1983), from Darkness at Noon (1940)
Honest, sensible professor.
Collectivism doesn't help me, you or children. It helps the power structure in use currently, via the media, to control the populace. That's all.
PRECISELY!
Great point he made at 3:10-ish... how do you even impose a "woke" agenda in the "hard sciences." I myself have a chem degree... I can see how you impose woke ideology into sociology, economics, political science, communication, etc... but once you get to chemistry, physics, math, etc... how do you communicate woke ideology (yet alone, that is, if you even align with wokeism)?
we need a serious re-boot of our govt
Good question what did they expect him to do?
Not teach chemistry. The people pushing D.I.E. have no interest or inteligence to understand the sciences or engineering, and don't care if they undo centuries of learning because they want us all worrying about who our words offend.
It is all about weeding out those that do not subscribe to their ideology. They cannot have free thinkers in it. The left is intentionally dismantling our country to make way for a globalist dictatorship.
Probably pass the students of color and fail the white and Asian students 😂
Bend the knee and allow students to blow up the lab? 😂
Yeah but if your doing this for people to go into areas of law, hr in companies. Social work and government workers than you see it displayed. From top down. People with ethical standards, lacking integrity to uphold their duties of that position. Just to get the bag society and to hell everyone else. Holy shit, they lower the bar for criminals to run rampant. And so on and so forth. It can't be incompetence, they refuse to acknowledge not upholding their path of office or positions.
AMEN!
I'm. Ready
So, communism.
Just the sight/sound of the word collectivism makes me cringe.
I believe you can thank Larry Fink for this BS
Larry Fink, the mega rich ESG promoting troll!
Well said Sir
They’re revolutionaries.
Do not comply❤❤❤
Why didn't we here anything from Jessie Appleby? Where is the discussion? Where is the consideration? Where is the reasoning?
This is just a clip. The entire discussion was posted after its live stream.
1:01 *gives a standing applause*
For subjects where rules and principles are bread & butter... wth is a "cultural norm"? The table of elements is at some point going to be declared... racist? The loons already did this to math. People on mushrooms have more sense than this.
Clown world is neither fun nor funny: real people are being damaged by insane theories, and at taxpayer expense.
I would like for someone to stand up at one of these struggle sessions and ask what they are hoping to achieve? Wasting time? You can't make someone change their manner of thought and even if you do, and they still want to harass you, they just dig through your old Tweets, say, and show that you are still not anti-racist or whatever, so it won't really matter.
Looks like Jordan Peterson is going to have a class mate.
Protect him at all costs
I’m a student trying to go the nursing route
I decided to do this right before a quarter started and ending up having to enroll in my two psych pre reqs
One of my psych classes is literally just half woke jargon.
And attendance is like 35% of my grade…
I have other classes and am trying to get fit. Listening to a feminist for an hour and a half a day actually gets in the way of my learning.
What the heck is happening in this world!? 😮
Californication ...yuck...good on you Bill xx
Give credit, where credit is due. Governor Newsom
Where's McCarthy when you actually need him.
Why am I not surprised to see bootlicking on a libertarian channel?
Pro racial unity pro ethnic equality pro linguistic diversity pro artistic diverstity, individualistic centrist Christian Republican. I Respect idrological governance.
‘Authentic lived experience’ is one of the finest examples of doublespeak in modern discourse. While it seems as though it ought to refer to individual people’s own experiences as they interpret them, it actually assumes in advance that a narrow set of experiences are ‘true’ and that any member of a supposed minority group who believes themselves to have experienced something different has been manipulated in some way. As a black student of mine once said to me: they say they’ve given us a voice but all we’ve been given is a script.
God be with you. Jeb..ac pedalstwo.
1:59 - yeah, I used to do the same and got in a lot of conflicts for not favouring people from "disadvantaged backgrounds" (ie: right demographics - they were almost all richer than me when I started), until I was fired on a pretence; well, luckily teaching was just some side-activity I did for fun.
Anti-racism is racism. Ask Kendi
Let's stop using the word "woke". When DeSantis starting using it, it stopped be relavant.
"Woke" is a construct like any other, which makes it only as relevant as the liar deceives people into believing it is.
We could appropriately call DEI “racist”, but that word has also lost all meaning.
It's more relevant than ever.
Who knew The Dude would end up teaching junior college chemistry??!
Completely unpredictable. Sexist. Next you're going to suggest that the less attractive female became expert in using narrative to manipulate social situations and became an HR parasite.
SMH
it's just like chemicals and elements man...
This is absurd!
Time for the people who fund these universities to clean house. Let them start with the boards of governors and work their way down from there. The last thing the world needs is more Evergreen Universities.
There's NO WAY I would allow my kids to go to public schools or federally funded College's! I'd home school!!!
How else do you get into a science field tho?
@@droogie76 If one is taught how to research properly, they will have no issues with learning. Besides: I wouldn't trust this Educational System to teach anyone anything!